The Shiralee: D'Arcy Niland's 1955 Australian western

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  I'm Mark Burtman, and for the documentary from the BBC World Service,

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  we're travelling deep into the Outback and the first ever staging of a classic Australian novel,

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  The Chirile, by Darcy Nyland.

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  Act one, scene one.

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  New South Wales, 1955.

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  A vast expanse of planes, dust and spin effects.

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  From the distance appears a man alone.

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  He gets closer and closer as he walks along a seemingly endless dirt road.

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  He is Macaulay.

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  A man of 35, built like a cenotaph.

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  He had ridges on his forehead like a row of sleepers,

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  a brassy look and a wide hat that put evening on his face while the rest of him was in sunshine.

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